Enoch Arden, etc/Experiments/Milton: Alcaics

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Milton.
Alcaics.
O mighty-mouth’d inventor of harmonies,O skill’d to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England,  Milton, a name to resound for ages;Whose Titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel,Starr’d from Jehovah’s gorgeous armouries, Tower, as the deep-domed empyrëan  Rings to the roar of an angel onset— ​Me rather all that bowery loneliness,The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring, And bloom profuse and cedar arches  Charm, as a wanderer out in ocean,Where some refulgent sunset of IndiaStreams o’er a rich ambrosial ocean isle, And crimson-hued the stately palmwoods  Whisper in odorous heights of even.

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